Selfridges has reinstated a shop assistant who was suspended after refusing to serve EDL leader Tommy Robinson’s friend following a Twitter storm over the incident.
Robinson visited a branch of the clothes shop on Monday with a friend but was refused service from an assistant that Robinson described as “a Muslim” on Twitter. The EDL leader leads the political group’s anti-Islam protests.
Robinson posted a video of the exchange and was promptly compensated by the shop with a free lunch at its Hix restaurant, with champagne included, for him and his friend.
However, the incident sparked outrage on Twitter with many coming to the defence of the shop assistant, who was suspended following the exchange, and who Selfridges said had a perfect record in his seven years of work.
The shop said the member of staff would return to work following an investigation, and was quoted in the Evening Standard as saying: “Company policy is everyone is welcome, regardless of what people’s political views are.”

We have completed our investigation with our long term Sales Associate, and he will be back in the store shortly